A return to Doha after five years forces a confrontation with memory, language, and loss as a son grapples with his mother’s illness and the shifting meaning of home.
After five years away, a son returns to Doha to care for his mother during her chemotherapy. Confronted by changes in his home and his mother's transformation, he grapples with the shifting nature of identity, memory, and language. Navigating the familiar yet foreign landscape of his childhood home, he reflects on what it means to be "home" and the unspoken distance between himself and his parents.
Torn between holding onto the past through memories and facing the present reality defined by illness, the son films his mother to freeze time—capturing her essence before it fades. But as the moments pass and the camera rolls, he realises that some things cannot be captured, and some silences cannot be filled with words. In the quiet spaces between frames, he not only seeks to understand his mother’s suffering but also strives to reconcile with his own grief, anger, and deep love—feelings he has never quite known how to express.
Torn between holding onto the past through memories and facing the present reality defined by illness, the son films his mother to freeze time—capturing her essence before it fades. But as the moments pass and the camera rolls, he realises that some things cannot be captured, and some silences cannot be filled with words. In the quiet spaces between frames, he not only seeks to understand his mother’s suffering but also strives to reconcile with his own grief, anger, and deep love—feelings he has never quite known how to express.
